Two New Angels

            There are many words to describe how amaz­ing my Nai Nai and Ye Ye were. They were fun­ny as well as smart and had the most excit­ing stories.

           I remem­ber my Nai Nai told me sto­ries about her fam­i­ly, such as the one about one of her rel­a­tives and how she was a stow­away. I had want­ed to write a book or a short sto­ry about it before she for­got it but nev­er found time, and now I real­ize I should’ve made time instead of wait. I nev­er knew that she would go before I had the chance to write it.

           She would always make life worth liv­ing too. Some­thing she used to do was she would pull and squeeze my nose. She thought it would give my nose a bridge. For this, I thank her for mak­ing me laugh and smile and for mak­ing life so much better.

           Ye Ye was a great per­son, and any­body lucky enough to know him knew that. He was smart, fun­ny, hard­work­ing, but went through so much. I remem­ber that he would always smile and that made me want to smile all of the time.

           If you’ve met my grand­pa, you know that he will be the most friend­ly per­son you will ever meet. He would know every­one wher­ev­er we went and would strike up a con­ver­sa­tion with the peo­ple he didn’t know and get to know them too. He always found a way to smile whether we were at a restau­rant or vis­it­ing him at his rehab cen­ter after his sec­ond stroke. It was hard los­ing Nai Nai, but also los­ing Ye Ye made things harder.

           Ye Ye was strict about only one thing I knew of. It was his hair. He nev­er let any­one ever touch it as well as his chin hair. He would even get mad when­ev­er some­one tried. And it was tru­ly a sur­prise when he let me feel his hair. It was a shock to even me. I remem­ber laugh­ing when my aunt told me that she had nev­er even touched his hair.

           Ever since the end of Feb­ru­ary, it has been a series of unfor­tu­nate events, but now both my Nai Nai and my Ye Ye can be free.